There are brilliant anecdotes, Grade-A talking heads and some enjoyably awkward moments in 'Beckham', but one big issue remains untackled
Sandra Beckham looks into the television camera and starts telling the story about how her son, as a young boy, had the chance to meet his favourite footballer. And, briefly, we are taken back to David Beckham’s childhood.
As such, Hoddle was never going to come out well in this documentary. Victoria Beckham makes it clear she cannot stand the bloke. Ted, her father-in-law, also has a pop. Then we go back to the retired hairdresser whose boy became the most famous footballer on the planet. “Glenn Hoddle said my son’s head wasn’t in the right place, didn’t he?” Sandra says. “I put him on my hit list, the people who have upset me.
Sir Alex Ferguson might have not had any involvement in the 2019 biopic about Sir Matt Busby’s life – an absence that may or may not have had something to with the fact he was planning his own film at the time – but he does appear here to wallow in the nostalgia, such as how much he disliked Victoria’s presence and the almighty rage, straight after losing to.Roberto Carlos recalls Beckham’s first summer with Real Madrid and the sheer bedlam, almost Beatlemania, of a pre-season trip to Japan.
Overall, it makes for an entertaining watch, even if it goes on too long in places and there are a few moments, inevitably, when it strays dangerously close to being the television equivalent of an interview with Hello! magazine.In the process, we get to see the soft-focus Beckham, the restless Beckham, the weepy Beckham , the OCD Beckham, the ultra-ambitious Beckham and, by his own admission, the occasionally selfish Beckham.
But that fame had its downside and those are the moments that leap out rather than just going through the usual Beckham portfolio: the goal from the halfway line, the free kick against Greece, the ups and downs with Fergie, and on and on.
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